{"id":603400,"date":"2026-04-24T10:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603400\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:06:07","slug":"steelers-thought-they-were-getting-makai-lemon-didnt-realize-eagles-had-cut-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603400\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers thought they were getting Makai Lemon, didn&#8217;t realize Eagles had cut the line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Steelers moved quickly with the truncated window to make their first pick in the 2026 draft, they didn\u2019t know the guy they wanted was already gone.<\/p>\n<p>Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, the Steelers thought receiver Makai Lemon would be available at No. 21. They didn\u2019t know the Eagles had moved up to No. 20 with the Cowboys to snatch Lemon.<\/p>\n<p>Rapoport reports that the Steelers called Lemon without realizing the Eagles had moved up. The Eagles weren\u2019t able to reach Lemon because he was on the phone with the Steelers. <\/p>\n<p>New Steelers coach Mike McCarthy can thank one of his former teams for giving the Lemon pick to a division rival. Without the trade down, the Cowboys wouldn\u2019t have taken Lemon. The trade let it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Steelers moved quickly with the truncated window to make their first pick in the 2026 draft,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":{"0":"post-603400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}